Comments on: If You Go to Barnes & Noble and Read Books For Free, Does That Count? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/11/30/if-you-go-to-barnes-noble-and-read-books-for-free-does-that-count/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:19:23 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dave http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/11/30/if-you-go-to-barnes-noble-and-read-books-for-free-does-that-count/comment-page-1/#comment-75647 Dave Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:54:02 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/11/30/if-you-go-to-barnes-noble-and-read-books-for-free-does-that-count/#comment-75647 This number might have come from the Washington Area Library Directory. (Check your local library for a copy.) Think about it. In addition to the "usual suspects" -- public library branches, academic libraries -- every law firm of any size has a library (that ought to be a thousand right there). Then there are the trade and professional associations. All the Federal government agencies. Embassies too. Not to mention the LOC -- counts as one. Whatever else Washington DC is the capital of, there's a good case that it's the information capital of the world, too. That number 715? -- I think they missed some! This number might have come from the Washington Area Library Directory. (Check your local library for a copy.) Think about it. In addition to the "usual suspects" -- public library branches, academic libraries -- every law firm of any size has a library (that ought to be a thousand right there). Then there are the trade and professional associations. All the Federal government agencies. Embassies too. Not to mention the LOC -- counts as one.

Whatever else Washington DC is the capital of, there's a good case that it's the information capital of the world, too. That number 715? -- I think they missed some!

]]> By: Tony Lumpkin http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/11/30/if-you-go-to-barnes-noble-and-read-books-for-free-does-that-count/comment-page-1/#comment-75627 Tony Lumpkin Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:09:58 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/11/30/if-you-go-to-barnes-noble-and-read-books-for-free-does-that-count/#comment-75627 I believe the LOC counts as 700 libraries, so there are only really 15 other libraries, but that seems like a stretch, too. I believe the LOC counts as 700 libraries, so there are only really 15 other libraries, but that seems like a stretch, too.

]]> By: Jamie http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/11/30/if-you-go-to-barnes-noble-and-read-books-for-free-does-that-count/comment-page-1/#comment-75625 Jamie Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:30:20 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/11/30/if-you-go-to-barnes-noble-and-read-books-for-free-does-that-count/#comment-75625 Almost certainly this factoid includes a bunch of public school libraries and college/university libraries, the Library of Congress and other Federal government libraries, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and so on. Almost certainly this factoid includes a bunch of public school libraries and college/university libraries, the Library of Congress and other Federal government libraries, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and so on.

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